Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also called the Guomindang (GMD), is a conservative party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, founded on 25 August 1912 by Sun Yat-sen and Song Jiaoren. The party overthrew the Qing dynasty in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, and it competed with the Communist Party of China for control of the country. Under Chiang Kai-shek, the KMT ruled over China, but it was overthrown in 1949 in the Chinese Civil War and forced into exile on Taiwan. The Kuomintang had a dictatorship on Taiwan and put down communist Chinese sympathizers, being opposed to reunification with communist China until the civil war officially ended in the 1990s, after which it favored cross-strait relations. It ruled Taiwan until it was defeated in elections in 2016, ending its rule over Taiwan after almost 70 years in power.